Robin Pingeton has spent the past seven years as the head coach at Illinois
State University where she finished with a record of 144-81 and two
trips to the NCAA Tournament. Under Pingeton, the Redbirds have won
three straight Missouri Valley Conference regular season championships.

The Missouri men's basketball team lost in the second round of the NCAA Tournament, but MU men's basketball coach Mike Anderson said he considered it a successful season because of his team's lack of experience.

Missouri freshman Michael
Dixon Jr. scored a team-high 15 points against West Virginia in 17 minutes, about half
the time played by most of Missouri’s starters in the team's second-round NCAA Tournament loss.

The Tigers had worked
around poor shooting showings before. The difference Sunday, in a 68-59 season-ending loss to West Virginia in the second round of
the NCAA Tournament, was that the misses weren’t open jump
shots or 3-pointers.
They were layups.

For most of the game, Missouri pestered taller West Virginia like
mosquitoes. However, it couldn’t contain the Mountaineers' height in a 68-59 loss Sunday in the second-round of the NCAA Tournament at HSBC Arena in Buffalo, N.Y.

Missouri freshman guard Michael Dixon said he wanted a clean start for Missouri's first-round NCAA
Tournament game against Clemson on Friday at HSBC Arena, and he decided
he would shave his head after Selection Sunday.

Players on the Missouri men’s
basketball team spent part of Thursday practicing at HSBC Arena, the site of
the team's first-round NCAA Tournament game. But they also kept tabs on the 16 games that kicked off what several
called the best time of the year.